Jane DarnellWikimedia Conferentie Nederland 2 november 2013

Utrecht

Jane Darnell 1

Biografieën van vrouwen op Wikipedia en 17e eeuwse

schilderessen

Biographies of women on Wikipedia and 17th-century painters

Er zijn minder vrouwen op Wikipedia

• Er zijn minder vrouwen die bijdragen• Er zijn minder biografieën van vrouwen• Er zijn minder bronnen over vrouwen

Jane Darnell 2

• Fewer women contribute

• There are fewer biographies of women

• There are fewer sources about women

There are fewer women on Wikipedia

{{ne|Onvoldoende bekendheid}}

Jane Darnell 3

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Berkman

“ne” = Niet Encyclopedisch

Two Haarlem portraits in 1644

Jane Darnell 4

My dataset (10,000+ artists) has grown from these sources:

• 1,843 records from old dictionaries of artist biographies (Vasari, Van Mander, Houbraken, Sandrart, etc) - only 47 are women

• 3,644 records Web Gallery of Art - only 37 are women

• 23,174 records Public Catalog Foundation• 13,000+ records Wikimedia Commons Creator

pages and Wikipedia articles

Jane Darnell 5

10,000 artist biographies

6Jane Darnell

This is the number of women in

my dataset

This is the number of women in

my dataset

Jane Darnell 6

Sorted by birth/work country

7Jane DarnellJane Darnell 7

Sorted by (known) birth century

8Jane DarnellJane Darnell 8

1,843 artists in old sources

9Jane DarnellJane Darnell 9

This is the number of women in

this dataset

This is the number of women in

this dataset

Hondius, Vasari, Van Mander, Ampzing, Baldinucci, De Bie, Sandrart, Du Piles, Houbraken, Weyerman, Van

Gool, Descamps

Jane Darnell 10

1,843 artists in old sources

11Jane DarnellJane Darnell 11

1,843 artists in old sources

12Jane DarnellJane Darnell 12

Most popular women, mentioned 3, 4, or 5 times in old sources

• (3) Joanna Koerten – paper cutter• (4) Maria Sibylla Merian – insect painter • (4) Rachel Ruysch –flower painter• (5) Anna Maria van Schurman – engraver• (4) Sofonisba Anguissola - painter

Jane Darnell 13

3,644 artists Web Gallery of Art

14Jane DarnellJane Darnell 14

This is the number of women in

this dataset

This is the number of women in

this dataset

3,644 artists Web Gallery of Art

Jane Darnell 15

3,644 artists Web Gallery of Art

Jane Darnell 16

16th & 17th century women in WGA• Sofonisba Anguissola• Eufrasia Burlamacchi• Margherita Caffi• Rosalba Carriera• Lucrina Fetti• Artemisia Gentileschi• Catharina van Hemessen• Judith Leyster• Louise Moillon

Jane Darnell 17

• Maria van Oosterwijk• Elisabetta Catanea Parasole• Clara Peeters• Rachel Ruysch• Diana Scultori• Elisabetta Sirani• Maria Tesselschade Visscher• Maria Tintoretta• Anna Roemers Visscher

Women in the sources

Jane Darnell 18

23,174 artists in PCF dataset “BBC Your paintings”

19Jane Darnell

This is the set of data

that I matched so far to my list

This is the set of data

that I matched so far to my list

Jane Darnell 19

Matching PCF data is a work in progress, most artists before 1750 are matched

20Jane DarnellJane Darnell 20

My matches from PCF, split by century of birth

21Jane DarnellJane Darnell 21

My PCF matches are mostly British, though early artists are mostly Dutch and Italian

22Jane DarnellJane Darnell 22

Only 84 women matched to PCF set

23Jane DarnellJane Darnell 23

Er zijn minder vrouwen op Wikipedia

• Er zijn minder vrouwen die bijdragen (6% van de bijdragers op de NL Wikipedia is vrouw)

• Er zijn minder biografieën van vrouwen (zonder bronnen, “ne”)

• Er zijn minder bronnen over vrouwen (speld in de hooiberg)

Jane Darnell 24

• Only 6% of the contributors on the Dutch Wikipedia are women

• Without sources, biographies are deleted as “not encyclopedic”

• In sources, women are the proverbial “needle in the haystack”